Marcel ROUX (1909 - 1993) - Lot 212

Marcel ROUX (1909 - 1993) Three chairs " Phi " with red lacquered thermoformed resin back. Two with blackened tubular legs and small rubber glides and one with a metal base with a star-shaped body. Published in a hundred copies. Two black and white archival photographs are attached, one showing the tubular base model, the other showing several examples of the cruciform base model in an in situ view of the interior of Marcel Roux's Villa du Tesson in Nice in 1963. Height 80,5 cm - Length 46 cm - Depth 38 cm Provenance : Personal furniture of Marcel Roux, remained since in the family. Bibliography : " The modern architect and the old apartment ", Art & Décoration, n°55, 1956, p. 2 for a reproduction of the model with tubular base on a photograph representing the room of the daughter of Marcel Roux in his apartment located 115 rue de Rennes (Paris, VIe).